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BBC Proms: 2020: A solo recital by star pianist Evgeny Kissin

2020

A solo recital by star pianist Evgeny Kissin

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BBC Proms: Evgeny Kissin plays Haydn, Chopin and Liszt.

BBC Proms: In this archive performance from 1997, Russian-born pianist Evgeny Kissin performs music by keyboard masters Haydn, Chopin and Liszt.

In 2020, BBC Radio 3 is bringing together musical greats, from the past and the present, in one extraordinary Proms season. Radio 3 is broadcasting the best of four decades of unmissable Proms concerts.

Martin Handley introduces this 1997 recital – the first ever solo piano recital at the Proms – showcases the Russian phenomenon Evgeny Kissin in only his second Proms performance. At 26, his performances and recordings had already brought him the kind of attention reserved for the starriest virtuosos – such as Chopin and Liszt themselves, whose music he plays here alongside Haydn’s noble Sonata No 52. 

Liszt’s fiendishly difficult Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 is the jewel in centre of this mammoth recital. With eight distinctive melodies, it is the most thematically rich of the 19 Rhapsodies – as well as one of the most popular. Supposedly closing the performance is the last of Chopin’s three piano sonatas - but there is an encore or two...

Haydn: Sonata No 52 in E flat
Liszt: Liebestraum No 3 in A flat
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 12 in C sharp minor

c8.10pm Interval
Martin Handley talks to his guest, pianist and broadcaster Lucy Parham, about tonight's concert 

Chopin: Nocturnes Ops 27 Nos 1 & 2
Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor 

Evgeny Kissin (piano) 

(From the BBC Proms, 10 August 1997)

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